> > Carpet bombing innocent populations/whatever is hardly the answer.
> > >From what most knowledgable people say, it is only a tiny fraction
> > of the population who use terrorist tactics, and killing innocents
> > will only increase that number. Look at what happened in the Sudan
> > after the cruise missiles went in.
>
> For my part, I can see no other effective solution that carpet bombing.
> What else can we do?  "Surgical strikes" are one solution ... remember
> Kosovo?  Toppling governments and installing puppets is another
> solution ... remember Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Fulgencio Batista, and
> Ngo Dinh Diem?

The fact that you do not see any other solution does not mean that carpet
bombing is right. It might mean that your failed to look a solution (because
you don't like it, like turning the other cheek) or (very likely) because
there simply is no easy solution.

Wouter van Ooijen

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